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Tag Archives: births
March 17, 1989
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1989 a series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm that shut down the power grid over large regions of Canada and caused widespread power outages that prevented literally thousands of Canadians from watching hockey on the television. Nine months later in 1989, during the two week period … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts
Tagged births, Canada, canadians, hockey, making babies, no TV, odd coincidences, solar flares
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October 16, 1916
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY! in 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City. Ms. Sanger, a birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse was subsequently arrested for providing birth control information to the women of New York so that they could decide if and when they wanted to become … Continue reading
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Tagged births, marriage, New York, politics, sex, the law
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October 12, 1860
On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY! in 1860, Inventor Elmer Sperry was born. He held patents on more than 400 inventions during his lifetime, with the most important being the Sperry Automatic Pilot. The least important was the Sperry X-Ray Goggles for Seeing Through Women’s Clothing as it didn’t work and caused migraines in all the … Continue reading
August 31, 2009
On THIS DATE IN TWISTED-HISTORY in 2009, Ireland reported that it had experienced the highest number of births for a year since 1896. It should also be noted that in 2007, Irish pubs adopted the American custom of “Ladies Nights” on Tuesdays and Thursdays, where women drink for half price. You do the math.
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Tagged alcohol, births, mathematics, the irish, women
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July 16, 1994
On July 16, 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with and impregnated the planet Jupiter just as Edgar Cayce, the dreaming seer, predicted back on March 23, 1937. Planetologists, Pardot Kynes and his son Liet, of the Corrino Corporation have expressed their opinion in the 19 years since the impregnation that when a comet loves a … Continue reading